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<\/p>\nReviewed by Kevin Tran. Viewed on DVD.<\/p>\n
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One reason why I love film so much is that it\u2019s a culmination of a variety of very different kinds of art such as acting, play writing, photography, and music. It\u2019s rare to see a film that works well at balancing every form of art that movies encapsulate, but Anton Corbijn<\/a>\u2019s Control<\/em><\/a> is one of these movies.<\/p>\n The film outlines the short life of Ian Curtis (Sam Riley), the front man of UK\u2019s most famous post-punk band, Joy Division. It begins with Curtis\u2019 post teenage years of stealing prescription drugs from neighbors and listening to David Bowie on his bed. \u00a0The film continues on to cover the entire lifespan of Joy Division, particularly focusing on how the band affected his personal life with his wife, Debbie, and his own mental health.<\/p>\n The plot is unique in the way it moves through very big landmarks in Ian Curtis\u2019 life in a very blas\u00e9 manner. \u201cLet\u2019s get married,\u201d he says to his first girlfriend at nineteen. \u201cLet\u2019s have a baby,\u201d he says later. It\u2019s almost comical how nonchalantly Ian becomes a crucial member of what would become the greatest post-punk band of all time.<\/p>\n We learn how songs may have manifested. As Ian tries to write a song, his wife begs him to come to bed. He simply scratches out the words \u201cShe\u2019s Lost Control<\/a>,\u201d which then falls into an entire scene that describes the deterioration of their marriage to the Joy Division song. Corbijn does this throughout the film, telling the story entirely with Curtis\u2019 harsh, brutal lyrics. The music propels the story.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not like I believe this film is great because I think Joy Division is great. Sam Riley\u2019s breakthrough performance is awesome. He sounds, looks, and feels eerily like the real Ian Curtis. Riley\u2019s acting remarkably shows off Curtis\u2019 moodiness. Curtis is not necessarily the most likeable character, but Riley makes us feel for him.<\/p>\n
![Jarmusch<\/a> films and capture that same attitude of feeling nothing. Yet it is beautiful still.<\/p>\nA must see if you love Joy Division, but I\u2019d also recommend it for people who don\u2019t, because chances are that after you watch Control, you will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reviewed by Kevin Tran. Viewed on DVD. One reason why I love film so much is that it\u2019s a culmination of a variety of very different kinds of art such as acting, play writing, photography, and music. It\u2019s rare to see a film that works well at balancing every form of art that movies encapsulate, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dvd","category-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/pixhost.eu\/avaxhome\/avaxhome\/2007-10-29\/bscap0000.jpg\"){kind=link}